#LoveSpainHateBullfighting – The Hand-In

Tens of thousands of you have taken action. Tens of thousands of you have said a resounding “No” to bullfighting and sent messages to the Spanish embassy demanding that the cruel sport not be granted legal protection.

Now we’ve made sure that your voices will be heard by delivering your messages to the Spanish authorities in person. Teaming up with the Humane Society International, the League Against Cruel Sports and the World Society for the Protection of Animals, last week we gathered outside the Spanish embassy in London with a crowd of volunteers wearing bull masks, including Spanish model Elen Rivas, and presented the ambassador with the names of the 67,078 people who signed the #LoveSpainHateBullfighting letter.

And today we were in Madrid, to give a letter to the Spanish Congress of Deputies, signed by more than 100 animal welfare organisations from 29 countries.

The letter opposes a proposed new law that would enshrine bullfighting as a national cultural pastime and allow public funds to be spent on it. This legislation, is about to be debated by the Spanish parliament, is backward, inhumane and totally out of tune with the values of modern Spain. As Barcelona-born Elen says, “Glorifying the deliberate slaughter of animals should not be tolerated in a civilised society”.

In the bullring, terrified animals are stabbed repeatedly with spears, spikes and daggers and eventually die in agony as a jeering crowd looks on. A recent Ipsos MORI poll of Spanish citizens showed that more than three-quarters do not wish their taxes to be used for this purpose, and the majority of Spaniards don’t attend bullfights. In fact, the unpopular bullfighting industry is largely propped up by EU subsidies.

The movement against bullfighting is global, with compassionate people inside and outside Spain alike voicing their opposition to the barbaric spectacle. Thanks to the phenomenal response by diverse animal-protection groups and the thousands of caring people who have united to rally against this absurd proposed law, Spanish authorities can hardly fail to get the message – bullfighting needs to be banned, not protected!

This blood sport is an absolute discrase ,
Those people that allow this to continue
Should hang there heads in shame, these
Beautiful animal suffer in thinkable pain
Please do the right thing here ban this

This has stop period your nothing murders and id personally would love to stab everyone who has watched or participated in this act n see how you like it..you sick asses. Your a disgrace to mankind hurting these beautiful animals…

I am Spanish, and I am totally against this “tradition” in Spain we are more than half of the population, especially young people who want this barbarism over, it hurts my soul when I see you hurt an animal, sometimes I realize that this happens a few hundred meters from my home

spain will be so much more beautiful without this cruel act.
beautiful music or dance showes can happen in fromer bull rings.
my vision… and i know many spaniards cant stand bull fighting.
animals are on the planet with us not for us. all animals have the same right to a good life and natural death as humans do.

I’ve never understood how something can be called ‘Sport’ when it’s a cruel and painful death of a defenceless animal. Why would you find joy in killing something to start with never mind this kind of thing?.
I always thought there must be something wrong in a persons wiring to want to do anything like this .Some Humans seem to think they have a right to do it !!. WE DON’T and should be ashamed.

Please do not continue with this cruel spectacle…I hesitate to call it a sport. How can it be right to charge people admission to watch the ritual torture and killing of an animal. We are no longer in the dark ages when people knew no better, we are in the 21st century and it is time that this horrendous act is outlawed for good.

Why do some humans have to be so cruel to animals,what in the hell have they done to deserve that????
Why do animals always have to be used to “entertain” humans in the first and being tortured and end up dying?????
This so called “tradition” has to stop now!!!!!

I feel I have to share my story. I was in Madrid, Spain years ago. My friend insisted I go to a bull fight. At that time I had no idea what I was getting into. I sat down in a coliseum . The bull came out and I was mortified at the scene after that. I was not taking this picture well at all. Everyone was cheering and I was horrified. I could not believe what I was witnessing. Then the bull turned an rammed the Matador. I stood up and cheered as loud as I could in a silent coliseum. Of course I was asked to leave and I politely exit the coliseum. It is a hideous entertainment especially for me and the BULL.

I am spanish and I fight every day against it…,but the bullfighting lobby is very powerful thanks to the public money they have been receiving from years..even now…and from the EU…we need the help fom the international community…polititians have their own interest! Pls help us to put an end to this…send an email to your nearest spanish consulate or embassy and cc info@latorturanoescultura.com

To make matters even worse, they call it “Culture” so they will receive more public funds and prmotion! It is a disgrace and a shame….Many thanks for your help!

Went to Spain years ago and sorry to say I went to see a bullfight. Never again as long as I live. I would not go to Spain again ever all the time theirs is entertainment with bull fighting and running the streets with bulls it is barbaric and its about time the government stopped it.

So many pretty things that I could remember Spain of, but instead I remember bullfights, and this cruel, sickening celebration where a live bull was set on fire and people were cheering and laughing, clapping hands while the agonized, terrified animal ran and jumped, with no way out of the flames that were burning it. Afterwards the people would eat its scorched flesh in belief it would protect them from disease or whatever ancinent beliefs. I thought this is what it must be in Hell,when I was watching that video.
What about this Spanish tradition by hunters, who torture their hunting dogs to death, if they fail to hunt?
Is Spanish race cruel…It seems to me!
Cruel and barbaric and I will never wish to go to Spain.

I’ m italian and I love Spain. The only thing i detest is bullfighting, because traditions can’ t be based on pain and death of bulls, or animals in general. Please be human, respect and protect animals!

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